CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile: Rwanda: July 2019

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Global HIV & TB. ; U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
• Description:
  Since 2002, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been committed to supporting the Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) to strengthen its capacity to prevent and detect disease and respond to public health threats. Together we are working to address HIV and tuberculosis (TB) through workforce capacity building, epidemiology, case finding, surveillance, HIV and TB treatment, laboratory and blood safety, health informatics, and monitoring and evaluation.
  
  Strengthening Clinical Services: CDC provides direct support and technical assistance (TA) to build expertise for MOH’s facility-based HIV/TB clinical services to provide comprehensive, integrated clinical prevention and treatment, including the scale-up of "one-stop" TB/HIV services at all 189 care and treatment sites.
  
  Strengthening Laboratory Systems: CDC supports a national testing laboratory network and quality management system, workforce development, and laboratory information systems (LIS) for HIV and TB. HIV epidemic control support includes surveillance, recency testing, and viral load suppression analysis. The National Reference Laboratory is working to achieve international accreditation and lead the other laboratories towards accreditation. CDC also supports reduced turnaround times of core HIV test results, effective use of LIS by healthcare providers, and improved site-level lab/clinical interface.
  
  Strengthening HIV Prevention Activities: CDC provides MOH with financial support and TA in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT), Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC), and targeted HIV case finding and prevention, including amongst key and priority populations.
  
  Strengthening Health Information Systems and Surveillance: CDC supports and provides TA to the MOH use of electronic health information systems to collect and analyze data of HIV prevention, detection, treatment, and reporting. Using data from multiple digital systems, a case-based surveillance system (CBS), and a national, unique patient identifier will improve decision-making regarding HIV transmission, implementation of partner and program performance, and individual health outcomes. An early CBS prototype is providing HIV-related case data on newly identified HIV positives and people living with HIV (PLHIV) who are on treatment in 23 health facilities.
  
  Rwanda.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Global Health HIV Infections/prevention & Control Public Health Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
• Series:
  CDC Division of Global HIV & TB Country Profile
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Rwanda
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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